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by mjr00 4y ago
Absolutely. People will quickly realize that for coding, the natural language part of LLMs is a distraction. Copilot is much better for someone actually writing code, but unfortunately doesn't get as emphasized due to the narrative s
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by mjr00 4y ago
Not a typo.[0] In the 00s/early 10s, software went through a fad phase where people earnestly thought that by implementing Gherkin frameworks like Cucumber, you'd be able to hand off writing tests to "business people" in
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I feel like this is yet another example of a large company acting in a way that hurts both their customers and themselves. This is pretty specifically a Nintendo thing. Sony, MS, and pretty much every major game studio are fine with pe
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by mjr00 4y ago
Does that make him objectively evil?
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by mjr00 4y ago
You could just, you know... talk to people. I've spent a lot of time in Korea/Japan and in both of those countries Xi is not hyped up to be evil despot that Western media makes him out to be. There's a very good reason why Am
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by mjr00 4y ago
> There are some people the world is objectively better off without... I was quite relieved when Rush Limbaugh died, for example. I will feel a great deal of relief when Putin and Xi eventually kick the bucket. There's nothing &quot
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by mjr00 4y ago
> There certainly are good and evil people. An extremely small percentage of people throughout history have been purely good or purely evil. The vast, vast majority are somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately, too many adults have been ra
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by mjr00 4y ago
Could you provide an example of a hit TV show or $100m+ grossing movie that was written by ChatGPT?
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by mjr00 4y ago
> If AI output is 60% as good as a person, but costs 1/1000th the price... what decision maker is going to justify paying 1000x more for 40% more quality? We're really in for it. Really depends on the type of output. For conten
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by mjr00 4y ago
AWS already makes it a massive headache with all sorts of warning flags if you try to make an object public, and this change will make it even more obvious. S3 is great for hosting static websites for pennies a month and zero work require
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by mjr00 4y ago
> It’s also possible, like a lot of skilled knowledge work, they’re greatly constrained on talent relative to potential work. Yep. If I have 10 people doing Job X, then ChatGPT makes a person doing Job X ten times more productive, I can
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by mjr00 4y ago
To the headline-only readers, be aware this article is largely not about advertising making products more expensive, but instead mostly lamenting ad-tech, terrible modern search, and proposing privacy regulations. IMO, the cat is mostly o
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by mjr00 4y ago
Half of them are asking for a pause so they have time to catch up. The other half of them (Sam Altman, OpenAI and co.) are playing into this to make ChatGPT seem far more powerful, and therefore valuable, than it actually is. Look at the pe
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Hum... My first guess is that what really changed was the ratio of developers working on places that do this to the ones working on places that integrate the jobs. Well sure, and that's because software companies that integrate th
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by mjr00 4y ago
> DevOps as a movement died when it started being used as a job title. In my experience, it quickly stopped being a philosophy for Dev and Ops teams to work on working better together and just because a new name for System Administrator.
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I don’t think it matters to their business or customers. So while they may well be taking a stance without even knowing - no one cares. If Google came out and said "Dokdo is Korea territory" I absolutely guarantee there wou
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by mjr00 4y ago
Google does business in both Japan and Korea. What's Google's stance on the Takeshima/Dokdo dispute?
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by mjr00 4y ago
Which side are you on in the Liancourt Rocks/Takeshima/Dokdo dispute? Remember, there's no remaining neutral in politics, so I expect a well-reasoned answer on this fundamental territorial rights dispute.
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Would you settle for "behave exactly as if they had some form of intelligence"? Sure, it behaves as if it has some form of intelligence in the sense that it can take external input, perform actions in reaction to this input,
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Language models obviously have some form of intelligence right now. This is not "obvious" in any sense of the word. At best, it's highly debatable.
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by mjr00 4y ago
> IME they typically they come about because realism comes with a price tag. An actual UI is more expensive to load than a mock, an actual webserver is slower than a fake web server, a postgres database spins up slower than an SQLite, a
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by mjr00 4y ago
> The bottom line is that developers experience higher cognitive load (and therefore more stress) when writing code in untested/undertested code bases. This is where burnout starts. Unit tests and testing suites ideally will lighten
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by mjr00 4y ago
Yep, similar story as well from me, as I'm sure anyone who was doing software in the pre-cloud, pre-Docker era has... Worked at a consulting firm doing enhancements to a legacy hotel reservation system, and we had just finished our lat
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by mjr00 4y ago
The author isn't saying that long-running tests aren't valuable, though. They're asking the question: how much more valuable would they be if they ran in minutes instead of days? Slow CI/CD and slow releases are a big pr
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by mjr00 4y ago
Both of those are from November, from what I've heard most brands stopped advertising while the drama was going on and they wanted clarity around the future of the platform (making sure it didn't becoming explicitly "alt-righ
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Despite all the firings, Twitter's financials are worst than pre-acquisition. How comes? Advertisers pulling out. Why? Firing abuse and content moderation teams meant there was a lot more unsavory spam on the platform and advertis
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by mjr00 4y ago
No, it's the complete opposite: the fact that Twitter has laid off 80% of its staff and is still operating has encouraged execs at other tech companies to push staff cuts. Vanity Fair wrote an article about this yesterday.[0] I do thin
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by mjr00 4y ago
This reflects more poorly on your engineering leadership than your coworker imo. Where are the guardrails? Why aren't his migrations going through a pull request where you can review and say "this should be a batch insert?" I
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by mjr00 4y ago
This isn't the movies/Studios division. More likely has to do with the relative failures of "Marvel's Avengers" (the video game) and Marvel Snap.
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by mjr00 4y ago
I've seen this happen several times before, and it's never been because people weren't typing fast enough: it's always bad or nonexistent management, unclear accountabilities, or lack of technical direction or oversight

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